Originally Posted by
Venryx
I would obviously want to think about that some more, but I think I probably would, yes. The concerns you mentioned, while valid, I think are better to face head on as a society, instead of potentially having just some rogue group somewhere find out about it and start exploiting it without the rest of us knowing. At least if we "flipped the switch" and enabled it globally, the "good guys" would have a chance to know about it and start setting up safeguards, to prevent a "subtle takeover" or manipulation campaigns by smaller groups that are in the know.
(It's similar to the concern about advanced, general AI. There are groups seriously worried about a rogue group being the first to achieve it, and causing a catastrophe that we can't recover from due to the AI outpacing us and making us unable to "pull the plug". It might not even be a "rogue" group, but just a group that wasn't careful enough. Anyway, the reasoning is that if the state-of-the-art AI development is done out in the open, we'll have time to realize when it's get close to the point of no return, and thus be able to carefully inch our way up to it while minimizing the chance of it becoming destructive.)